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Kristine started out the decade of the ’90s as one of the fastest-rising and most prolific young authors on the scene, took a few years out in mid-decade for a very successful turn as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and, since stepping down from that position, has returned to her old standards of production here in the 21st Century, publishing a slew of novels in four genres, writing fantasy, mystery, and romance novels under various pseudonyms as well as science fiction. She has published more than fifty novels under her own name, including The White Mists of Power, Snipers, and The Enemy Within, the seven-volume ‘Fey’ series, the Diving’ series, and Alien Influences. Her most recent books are the popular, award-winning fifteen-volume SF ‘Retrieval Artist’ series, which includes The Disappeared, Extremes, Consequences, Buried Deep, Paloma, Recovery Man, and the story arc within the series, The Anniversary Day Saga. She will publish two Diving Universe novels in the next year, The Falls in October, and an as-yet-untitled novel in the spring. Her copious short fiction has been collected most recently in Recovering Apollo Eight and other stories. Her stories have appeared in, to date, over twenty best of the year collections. All of her short fiction is available as standalone titles online. She also reprints one story per week on her website for free, in a series she calls Free Fiction Monday. As of this writing, she has won the Asimov’s Readers Choice award eight times, the AnLab award from Analog three times, as well as several other readers awards. She won the Hugo in 2000 for her short story “Millennium Babies.” She is also a multi-award nominee in the mystery genre (under both the names Rusch and her pen name Kris Nelscott), and in romance under her pen name Kristine Grayson. She also has a career as an editor, which she first retired from in 1997, after being honoured with the Hugo Award for her work on The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and sharing the World Fantasy Award with Dean Wesley Smith for her work as editor of the original hardcover anthology version of Pulphouse. In 2012, she returned to editing with the anthology series, Fiction River. She also edits standalone projects like The Year’s Best Mystery and Crime Stories 2016 (with co-editor John Helfers) and The Women of Futures Past, a fiction anthology that honours the history of women in the science fiction field. For more information on her and her writing or to read a story for Free Fiction Monday, go to her website, kristinekathrynrusch.com.
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Pamela has won the Nebula and Locus Awards, been a finalist for the Hugo Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, and Sidewise Award, and was honored in 2012 with the Pilgrim Award, given for lifetime achievement in science fiction and fantasy scholarship, by the Science Fiction Research Association. She is the author of the science fiction novels Cloned Lives, The Sudden Star, Watchstar, The Golden Space, The Alien Upstairs, Eye of the Comet, Homesmind, Alien Child, The Shore of Women, Venus of Dreams, Venus of Shadows, and Child of Venus, as well as the alternative historyClimb the Wind. Ruler of the Sky, her 1993 historical novel about Genghis Khan, was a bestseller in Germany and Spain. She also edited the Women of Wonder anthologies, the first collections of science fiction by women, published in the 1970s by Vintage/Random House and in updated editions during the 1990s by Harcourt Brace. Sargent sold her first published story as a senior in college at the State University of New York/Binghamton University, where she earned a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy and also studied ancient history and Greek. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s SF Magazine, New Worlds, World Literature Today, Amazing Stories, Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine, Universe, Nature, and Polyphony, and in her collections Starshadows, The Best of Pamela Sargent, The Mountain Cage and Other Stories, Behind the Eyes of Dreamers and Other Short Novels, Eye of Flame, Thumbprints, Dream of Venus and Other Science Fiction Stories, and most recently Puss in D.C. and Other Stories. Her latest novel is Season of the Cats, a fantasy set in the present. Michael Moorcock has said about her writing: “If you have not read Pamela Sargent, then you should make it your business to do so at once. She is in many ways a pioneer, both as a novelist and as a short story writer... She is one of the best.” Pamela Sargent lives in Albany, New York.
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Allen became a full-time science fiction writer in 1988, following publication of his first short story, “Live From The Mars Hotel”. Since then he has become a prolific author of novels, short stories, and essays, with his work translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide. His novels include Orbital Decay, Clarke County, Space, Lunar Descent, Labyrinth of Night, The Jericho Iteration, The Tranquility Alternative, A King of Infinite Space, Oceanspace, Chronospace, the Coyote Trilogy, the Coyote Chronicles, Spindrift, Galaxy Blues, Hex, Apollo’s Outcast, V-S Day, and Arkwright. He has also published six collections of short fiction: Rude Astronauts, All-American Alien Boy, Sex and Violence in Zero-G, American Beauty, The Last Science Fiction Writer, and Tales of Time and Space. His work has appeared in most major US SF magazines, including Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog, and Fantasy & Science Fiction, as well as in dozens of anthologies. He won the Hugo Award for novellas The Death Of Captain Future and ‘...Where Angels Fear to Tread’, and for The Emperor of Mars Steele was First Runner-Up for the 1990 John W. Campbell Award, received the Donald A. Wollheim Award in 1993, and the Phoenix Award in 2002. In 2013, he received the Robert A. Heinlein Award in recognition of his long career in writing space fiction. Steele is a former member of both the Board of Directors and the Board of Advisors for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and is also a former advisor for the Space Frontier Foundation. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife Linda and their dogs.
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The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light - and, with it, the enormity of the universe - realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it's hard science-fiction where a sense of discovery is most often found and where science-fiction's true heart lies.
This exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field, including Gwyneth Jones, Stephen Baxter and Charles Stross.
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ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND
Those were Neil Armstrong’s immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound.
Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System. From the eerie transformations in Pat Cadigan’s “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi” to the frontier spirit of Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey’s “The Road to NPS,” and from the grandiose vision of Alastair Reynolds’ “Vainglory” to the workaday familiarity of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “Safety Tests,” the thirteen stories in this anthology span the whole of the human condition in their race to colonise Earth’s nearest neighbours.
Featuring stories by Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, James S. A. Corey, John Barnes, Stephen Baxter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Elizabeth Bear, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Paul McAuley, Sandra McDonald, Stephen D. Covey, An Owomoyela, and Bruce Sterling, Edge of Infinity is hard SF adventure at its best and most exhilarating.
‘A strong collection of stories that readers of science fiction will certainly enjoy.’
Locus Magazine
‘Stands as a solid and at times striking contribution to “the ongoing discussion about what science fiction is in the 21st century.”’
The Speculative Scotsman
‘If you want
science fiction, rather than space opera, this is for you.’
Total SciFi Online
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HUMANITY AMONG THE STARS
What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars?
Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field.
The fourteen startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds and Peter Watts.
“A strong collection of stories that readers of science fiction will certainly enjoy.”
Locus Magazine on Engineering Infinity
“One of the year’s most exciting anthologies.”
io9 on Edge of Infinity
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THE FUTURE IS OURSELVES
The world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come?
Whether it’s climate change, inundated coastlines and drowned cities; the cramped confines of a tin can hurtling through space to the outer reaches of our Solar System; or the rush of being uploaded into cyberspace, our minds and bodies are going to have to drastically alter.
Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us another incredible volume in his much praised science-fiction anthology series, featuring stories by Madeline Ashby, John Barnes, James S.A. Corey, Gregory Benford, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Simon Ings, Kameron Hurley, Nancy Kress, Gwyneth Jones, Yoon Ha Lee, Bruce Sterling, Sean Williams, Aliette de Bodard, Ramez Naam, An Owomoyela and Ian McDonald.
“One of the year’s most exciting anthologies.”
io9 on Edge of Infinity
“[The Infinity series] has gone from strength to strength.”
Tor.com
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